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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
This book, for those who don't know, is the story of an anonymous patient, nicknamed "Sybil", who suffers from multiple personalities or, as it's commonly known today, Dissociative Identity Disorder. Not only dues she have multiple personalities, she has SIXTEEN!!! For those who also don't know (aka people alive when this first hit shelves and tv screens who also believe that Jayne Mansfield was decapitated and all the other things tabloids told them) this book is not nonfiction. It has been disproven many times. In a time where google didn't exist and investigators weren't listened to as much, this story flourished.
While this book is a complete fabrication and upon reading it I can see why people were convinced of its lies, the writing is well-done, the story compelling, and the pictures included give the book a true crime feel of probability (honestly some of "Sybil's" paintings and drawings are beautiful). Sadly, knowing that it's not true and kind of a scam gives the book a feeling of reading a witch trial transcript or watching people on the Travel channel claim to have "supernatural experiences" when you know they were just paid to say all these things. I hate feeling lied to by an obvious liar.
1/5 stars
While this book is a complete fabrication and upon reading it I can see why people were convinced of its lies, the writing is well-done, the story compelling, and the pictures included give the book a true crime feel of probability (honestly some of "Sybil's" paintings and drawings are beautiful). Sadly, knowing that it's not true and kind of a scam gives the book a feeling of reading a witch trial transcript or watching people on the Travel channel claim to have "supernatural experiences" when you know they were just paid to say all these things. I hate feeling lied to by an obvious liar.
1/5 stars